7D- Talking About Favorite Food

 D  Favorite food

1 Reading

A Look at the pictures in the magazine article. Can you name the food?

B Read the article. What's the best title? Check (✔) the correct answer.

□ Meal Times

□ My Favorite Food

□ Dinner Around the World

Answer:

My Favorite Food

Letters from our readers

I love nachos. I make them once a week. I just buy some tortilla chips and put cheese, beef, tomatoes, and onions on top. Then I cook it in the microwave.

HEATHER

United States

I like dumplings a lot. You can buy good dumplings in restaurants, but I usually eat my mother's dumplings. They're delicious! I eat them for lunch four or five times a month.

JAE-SUN

South Korea

My wife and I go to our favorite ice-cream shop three times a month. They have many flavors, but we always get chocolate ice cream. It's our favorite.

CARLOS

Argentina

I really like pancakes, but we don't eat them for breakfast. We eat them after dinner. We usually eat them two or three times a month. I like to eat them with jam.

OLGA

Sweden

C Read the article again. Complete the chart with the correct information.

Answer:

- nachos - once a week

- dumplings - four or five times a month

- ice cream - three times a month 

- two or three times a month

D Pair work Imagine you can have one food in Part A right now. Which food do you want? Why? Tell your parnter.

"I want dumplings. I love korean food. Vegetable dumplings are my favorite."

2 Listening A meal in Sweden

A Listen to Olga describe a typical meal in Sweden. Which meal does she talk about? Check (✔) the correct answer.

□ breakfast

□ lunch

□ dinner

Script:

Page 73, Exercise 2, Listening, A meal in Sweden

OLGA: Hi, Matt.
MATT: Oh, good morning, Olga. How's it going?
OLGA: Good, thanks. Let's have some breakfast before class.
MATT: OK . . . . Olga, you're from Sweden, right? What's a typical breakfast in Sweden?
OLGA: Well, one very important food is bread.
MATT: Do you put anything on the bread?
OLGA: Yes, we do. We usually have it with butter or cheese.
MATT: What about pancakes?
OLGA: Swedes love pancakes, but we hardly ever eat them for breakfast. We usually eat them after dinner, for dessert.
MATT: What other food is typical for breakfast in Sweden?
OLGA: Swedes also eat cereal and eggs for breakfast. And a lot of fruit.
MATT: How healthy.
OLGA: Oh, it is.
MATT: It sounds like a lot of food.
OLGA: Well, hotels sometimes have big buffets, but we usually eat a small breakfast at home. Then we have a light lunch and a big dinner.

B Listen again. Circle the words you hear.

Answer:

- bread

- cereal

- cheese

- eggs

- fruit

- pancakes

3 Writing A typical meal

A Think of a typical meal in your country. Answer the questions.

• What do people drink?                                               
• What do people eat?                                                  
• Do you usually eat it?                                                
• Why or why not?                                                        

B Write about a typical meal in you country. Use the model and your answers in Part A to help you.

A japanese Breakfast

People in Japan usually drink green tea for breakfast. They eat fish, rice, soup, salad, and pickles.It's a healthy and delicious breakfast, but I don't eat this. I usually drink orange juice adn eat cereal and fruit for breakfast.

C Class activity Post you wrtiting around the room. Read your classmates' wrtiting. Who describes similar meals?

4 Speaking What's your favorite meal?

A Pair work Add two questions about food to the chart. Then interview you partner. Take notes.

A: What's you favorite kind of food?

B: I love Mexican food.

B Group work Tell you group about your partner's favorite meal. Do you like that meal, too? Does your group like it?

 I can  talk about my favorite food.